Posts by Pedro Coutinho Silva

Author: Pedro Coutinho Silva

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Pedro Coutinho Silva. tl; dr SASS is CSS for programmers. It gives you the building blocks that you’re used to, such as variables, conditions, and loops. And it helps you organize. The bigger the project, the bigger the advantages offered by SASS. It’s a way of managing CSS styles even if you’re not very good at it. SASS vs. CSS So what about SASS vs. CSS? First of all, what is SASS? SASS (Syntactically Awesome Style Sheets) is a pre-processor of CSS; SASS code always compiles into CSS. In other words, SASS is a way of writing ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Pedro Coutinho Silva. I hope you will give me 7 minutes to convince you why CSS is a good thing, and why you should be using it in your projects. In this post I’ll give you a little overview of CSS and I’ll discuss adding CSS to R Shiny. In my future article I’ll compare SASS and CSS, and I’ll show you how you can use SASS in R. So, R Shiny provides scalability, fast prototyping, and power, but without CSS, it looks like this: Source: http://shiny.rstudio.com/gallery/faithful.html With CSS, it can look like this: source: https://github.com/leoluyi/ptt_give_dashboard Are ... Read More